My daughter bought a 1990 Miata ... and at that time she worried
about it's "practicality" ... My sage fatherly advice to her was ...
"every young girl needs at least one red roadster in her lifetime"
... she bought it and still drives it today, whenever she is not
driving her Camry with the baby car seat in the back. I drove the
Miata a few times and it brought back pleasant memories, but it was
so Civilized!! Everything worked ... it handled great, the shift
throws were short and precise, you could put up the top with one
hand while sitting in the drivers seat ... yet it missed something
... it had no soul ...
A few years later we found and purchased Casper (1957 TR3), and it
too brought back memories, memories of our first 1957 TR3 that was
our only car. The one we drove from Biloxi, Mississippi to San
Francisco, California, via Kansas City, Missouri. You see we did
not know we couldn't do that, and it was our only car. The current
Casper brings back waves of nostalgia, and as some clever editor
once wrote, "when you turn the Key, press the Starter, it does not
just start ... it comes Alive!!! " Now that is Soul ...
>Yes, it just depends on where you want to go.
>
>My TR250 takes me back to 1968 when I drove it off the show room
>floor. No other car can get from here to 1968.
>
>Don Malling
>
>TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
>>
>>It all depends upon how you face life and what you are looking for.
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Bill Pugh
1957 TR3 TS16765L
aka
Casper
1971 TR6 CC59179L
aka
Rosey
Wallace, CA
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